A concerned mother expressed her anger after her daughter’s school commandeered a picture of a pig because its jaunty tie looked like a penis.
Sierra Carter, from Michigan, took to TikTok to explain that she’d received a phone call from her 11-year-old’s art teacher who had concerns over one of her creations.
Sierra’s daughter had drawn a colourful masterpiece, titled Piggie, which portrayed the farmyard animal waving its arms, alongside a speech bubble that read: ‘Hi’. However, the Hanover-Horton Elementary School teacher considered it inappropriate and said the pig’s bow tie illustrated male genitalia.
Sierra has since attended meetings with the teacher, a social worker, and the principal as well as the school’s superintendent, but claims that the matter hasn’t yet been resolved satisfactorily and says the picture is still being kept on her daughter’s record.
Social media users were quick to convey their support for Sierra and her family, branding the situation as shameful.
But the school’s superintendent, John Denney, called the situation unfortunate, saying that it was a one-sided narrative that had been created on social media that painted their staff in a negative light.
In the candid clip, which so far has more than 800,000 views, Sierra spoke to the camera as she explained what’s been occurring.
She said that she got a phone call from her daughter’s teacher, she’s in fifth grade, and she’s 11 years old. Her teacher told her that her daughter had drawn something inappropriate in the art class and that a little boy had come up to her and made her aware that he thought her daughter had drawn boy parts on her pig assignment.
The teacher went over and asked her daughter for all of her papers, but her daughter told the teacher straight away that she’d drawn a bow tie, but the teacher proceeded to take all of her papers from her and then she said she had to give her daughter’s assignment to the vice principal of the school.
Sierra was then called into a meeting and said that she got there in the morning and they took her into a conference room, and she sat down with the teacher and the social worker for the school.
She said they handed her daughter’s art project that was apparently just so offensive and as soon as she looked at it, she was like: ‘Are you fricking kidding me?’
She said that she literally slammed her hand down on the table and said that she was so annoyed and that it was a bow tie.
The school shouldn’t have been criticising the little girl, they should have been telling her what a fantastic picture she’d drawn. Okay, maybe she’s no Picasso, but after this, who knows, someone might be putting it up in their gallery and it might sell for millions, and some people need to get a sense of humour!
And it appears that the principal, teacher and social worker all need to take an anatomy course because boys’ bits are not located under a pig’s chin… and it says more about the minds of the teachers than that of the child, and I’d be fascinated to see what’s on their curriculum, and of course, the teacher’s should get their minds out of the gutter.
These are teacher’s taking the purity out of something a child innocently and proudly did, and you have to chuckle about it because these teachers are becoming a band of miseries and they should loosen up.
Does it really matter whether it’s a tie or a jokey male part? It’s art – a place to use the imagination. Go to any museum of art, the human physic is displayed in paint and sculpture, but how frightening it is now to be a child today in today’s woke society.
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